Familysearch Photos & Stories
FamilySearch Photos and Stories provides tools to help you capture, preserve, and share your family memories for today and for generations to come. Watch the video below “Preserve Your Photos And Family Memories With #FamilySearch.”
Discontinued FamilySearch Indexing Mobile App
Editor’s Note (April 2025): FamilySearch Indexing has been replaced by new technology. Learn about new opportunities to help improve historical records. The beta (preliminary) test of the FamilySearch Indexing mobile app has been completed and the app has been...
Putting the World’s Historical Records Online in 1 Generation
FamilySearch is working to put the world’s historical records online in one generation. See this infographic for details.
RootsTech Streamed Online
Can’t attend this year’s RootsTech family history conference in person? 15 sessions will be streamed free over the Internet. RootsTech is a family history and technology conference that offers family history training for adults and youth. The following are...
Upload Photos to FamilySearch in 10 Easy Steps
You likely have family photos on your computer or saved in boxes. What do you do with them? Upload them to FamilySearch’s Family Tree so they will be preserved forever and so you can share them with others. The illustrations below show the 10 easy steps to...
Top LDS365 Articles from 2013
Here is a summary of the top articles from LDS365.com during 2013, along with comments about why they were significant and will continue to be significant in 2014. General Conference LDS365.com provided many articles about each LDS general conference. Prior to each...Family History: It’s Changed Me
In the video “It’s Changed Me,” youth describe how family history work has changed them. Learn more about youth and family history work.
The Best Christmas Gifts
The article “Gifts You Can’t Wrap” (read text or see PDF) from the New Era magazine reminds us that some of the greatest gifts we can give at Christmas are those we can’t wrap. Here are some unforgettable gifts that young people can give their parents:...Preserving Digital Records
The video below gives ideas on how to preserve your digital files, such as photographs and journals. This is one video from Preserving History Instructional Videos, a series of brief video vignettes on how to care for personal records and artifacts. Related articles:...Mormons Focus on Family History
The video below shows that finding and connecting with one’s family has always been a priority for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). The Church has established the largest collection of family history records in the world and...
RootsMapper Shows Ancestor Migrations
The RootsMapper web application helps you visualize the origins of your ancestors and see how they migrated. When you enter your FamilySearch log-in, it accesses the FamilySearch database, and then uses Google Maps to plot the birth place of your ancestors up to 7...
FamilySearch Branches Out
Learn more in the article “FamilySearch.org Redesign Includes Shareable Photo, Story Options.”
My Family Booklet: Stories That Bring Us Together
FamilySearch.org is an amazing technology to record the entire pedigree of the human race. From any computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone in the world, you can collaborate with anyone else in the world to build your family tree. But since not everyone has a...Video: What is an Ancestor?
What is an ancestor? In the video below, children were asked “What is an ancestor?” They provide some thoughtful, interesting, entertaining, and surprising answers. How would you explain the concept of a family tree or ancestry to children?Follow on social media